Dignan v. County of Spokane

Citations

• 43 Wash. 419
• 86 P. 649
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 720

Syllabus

<p>Highways — Injuries—Bridges—Condition—Proximate Cause-Runaway Team. A county is not liable for personal injuries sustained in the overturning of a wagon through, the running away of a team, the pole having dropped from the neck yoke and the end sliding along the ground until it caught in the loose and warped planks of a small drainage bridge or culvert, where it appears that the bridge, while somewhat decayed and uneven, was reasonably safe for ordinary travel for any conveyances driven at ordinary speed; since its condition was not the proximate cause of the injury.</p>